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By Russell Graves
The sight must have been a spectacular one. While estimates vary, sometime around 100 million years ago, the skies above what would later become the dry desert grasslands between Fort Stockton and Marathon, Texas, glowed in a brilliant light. Some scientist say that it was a comet while others say it might have been a meteor, but either way, something big slammed into the earth and created an enormous scar on the landscape. Estimates say the object was as big as a football field. Considering the size of the blemish on the earth, it is remarkable that an object so small can create a scar so enormous—a scar so big most don’t even know it’s there.
Somewhere south of Fort Stockton on US Highway 385, a mountain peak rises curiously from the desert landscape. Detached from the Glass Mountains further south, the singular peak stands juxtaposed in the surrounding landscape of scrub mesquite and a ring of smaller foothills around the periphery. Between the hills and the peak is a big, flat plain of mesquite and creosote bush. In all, the astrobleme is enormous at about eight miles across.
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By Krista Lucas Wynn
Each year, when the professional rodeo season wraps on Sept. 30, the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and Women’s Professional Rodeo Association announce the Nutrena Horse of the Year, presented by the American Quarter Horse Association, in each event. This is a prestigious award, voted on by the members of the associations. To be named Horse of the Year by fellow competitors is a high honor only a few achieve.
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By Heather Welper
Husband and wife duo, Heather and Calvin Welper, are the Co-Owners and Operators or Two C Livestock, located in Valley View, Texas.
The pair’s operation has a show cattle focus where they raise and sell purebred heifers of all breeds and club calf Hereford steers.
When it comes to show cattle, the Welpers know a thing or two including how to prepare for the cold winter months and the Texas major show season run.
To read more, pick up a copy of the November edition of North Texas Farm & Ranch magazine, available digitally and in print. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
By Tony Dean
Snow on the Mountain is an annual forb that is part of our landscape almost every year.
It is adapted to most of Texas and grows north to Montana and Minnesota and south to Mexico.
Although is seems to be most adapted to clay soils, this plant can be found on a wide variety of soil and moisture conditions.
To read more, pick up a copy of the November edition of North Texas Farm & Ranch magazine, available digitally and in print. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
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